Loch Ness Monster Could Be A Giant Eel, Scientist Says | TODAY
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- At a press conference on the shores of Loch Ness, Scotland, DNA scientist Neil Gemmel announced the results of his year-long analysis of what creatures lurk beneath the mysterious seas. NBC’s Kelly Cobiella reports for TODAY.
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Loch Ness Monster Could Be A Giant Eel, Scientist Says | TODAY
A giant eel that disguises itself as a catfish...
Sneaky
Clever girl
@@teezy3535 Did you just assume it's gender?
So what you’re saying is..... everyone got catfished
@@pchurch4973 OMG
@@pchurch4973 I'm dieng 🤣😭🤣😭😭🤣😂
He became friends with the monster, and now trying to throw us off to keep nessy safe.
Friends with the monster that is under his bed?
P & F reference? :P
One thing to note is that there were no seal DNA found in the water, but seals routinely stay in the Loch for months at a time before migrating out.
It's obvious. Clearly they're tracking Gyrados.
So a Magikarp was just chilling in the lake doing it's famous splash attack when it evolved into an over sized Gyrados? Sounds legit
A shiny gyarados
Legit
Shoosh its last of its kind.
Pokémon 4-ever!!
If the eel is +20ft then I'm not even mad since that is technically still a lake monster. I sure wouldnt want a great white shark sized eel creepin up to me while swimming.
Loch Ness isn't someplace you want to go swimming unless you want to die from hypothermia. That water is very very cold, and that lake is insanely deep. I was there back in 98, in August, the height of summer. Put my hand in the water and pulled it out quick. Felt like I stuck my hand in ice water.
GrayFatty lol some great whites are 20 ft. Very rare but some are. I sound like a turd but I’m just saying
Ugh i don't want another fake myth bros
Why are you sleeping in a lake?
Freshwater sturgeon can get over 20ft also, just saying. Sadly you don't see them that big very often, if ever, these days. It's a fact that they can still get that big though as long as they arent overfished. Not saying sturgeon are in loch ness, just that there are actual lake fish that can get 20ft. So to hear of a 20ft eel in a lake wouldnt really be that strange. The largest beluga sturgeon ever recorded was 24ft long and 3463lbs..... Basically the size of a great white shark....
Why isn't my boy Bigfoot getting any clout?
Because they probably don't believe. Go watch some Bob Gymlan videos, that ought to cheer you up. His stuff is scarily scientific, and frighteningly plausible.
Also, what happened to Chupacabras?
miguel cervantes ikr
Or my dad?
Big up my boy big foot!
Why not just send a submarine down there for a while
Eric Guo IKR
they did
Its too murky and muddy when you start going deep
@@Supershamwow02 are you someone that has learned a lot about water condition and stuff? Or is this just an idea/opinion? With the tech we have. We should be able to find it.
Canadian Guitarist, that’s not how that works. The water is wayyy too muddy.
I need about tree fiddy.
LoL
Lmao
🤣🤣
Dammitwoman!!
Why do give him money??
my Nugz he tricked meh
I guess we're going to ignore that the original photographer admitted on his death bed that it was faked.
TheNajSD original photo? Buddy tales of the creature date back further than cameras.
Your not a very bright person
But there are a lot of OTHER reports, going back generations...
@@dustinparker3573 Tales also include dragons, werewolves, and vampires. Sooo...
@@mercinmadzootedg You're*
Sounds a lot like something Nessie would WANT you to think...
The conspiracy continues...
Actually I know exactly what the monster wants.
@@abigailsaoirsefinnegan what?
@@fartmymouth about tree fiddy
Omg is that the Loch Ness Monster? Let me take out my 1999 Nokia phone to record this!
@Lind L Tailor Damm bro, didn't know that, lemme pull out my Iphone instead bro
There is a monster in Loch Ness. It's an old movie prop from a Sherlock Holmes movie (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970) that sank during filming on the Loch, and has been preserved perfectly on the bottom. It was rediscovered by a search team looking for the real Loch Ness monster using a deep-water scan.
The Loch Ness monster most probably IS an abnormally large eel. Just like many other so called lake monsters.
Not the case to me, some reports describe the back of an animal resembling an overturned boat, eels aren't like that, they constantly move. Another thing, is that an eel of that size is carnivorous and wouldn't pass up an opportunity to attack a human, which the mystery animal of Loch Ness isn't said to do.
The eel DNA was just a big coincidence, the eels themselves are a food source to some other denizen of the loch. The reason why they've not found any unusual DNA, is because DNA doesn't last long. The mystery animals had left the loch long before they mounted the expedition, so any traces of DNA evidence has been degraded due to the certain conditions in the loch.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ The eels don't move constantly, they often rest at the bottom. And these are unusually and abnorm large eels. eDNA normally lasts 2 weeks, but why would your animals leave the lake just prior to the sampling? No new DNA will never turn up in the lake. Sorry.
@@Starkodder1963
That's at the bottom of the loch, not the surface. Some eyewitnesses see a whalelike animal with a solid body laying stationary at the surface of the loch, then submerging like a submarine.
Also, they stated that the loch couldn't support large animals, so it isn't an abnormally large eel, the only eels known there are European Eels, which are 3.5 feet.
And yes, you can find DNA traces, you just need to be there at the right time of year, right time of day. And yes, DNA doesn't last long, if it is conditions like Loch Ness, they don't last any longer than a week, some DNA fragments are very fragile if you didn't know. I will, however, keep the eel explanation in mind, given that I don't have any evidence myself to back up the eyewitness testimonies of a whalelike animal, however, even Roy Mackal has seen the animal, and believes it be some species of cetacean like a Zeuglodon. And just like me, you have no evidence yourself to back up the eel claims.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ It is an abnormal eel. Shapeshifter like it is. There are many old testimonials in Scandinavia which describes them like the horseel with a mane on its back but calls them lindorm, drake or the like. We have the Storsjöodjur also. You can dream on.
karlshuker.blogspot.com/2015/03/bothersome-beithirs-and-other.html
@@Starkodder1963
The Storjöodjur and the others you've mentioned aren't even eels. The Storjöodjur is believed to be some form of pike or unusual otter. The Lindworm is some sort of reptile or annelid.
"You can dream on", says the one who only comes up with the "eel" as the only explanation for every other Lake Monster legend, when some are reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians and some are big hoaxes. You literally don't see the whole picture of reality.
Ain’t buying it that’s far fetched ...it’s defiantly an alien hybrid from zeta reticuli
Wtf? 😂
Aliens don't swim in space
Massa they are hybrid offspring of Michael Phelps so I find that extremely hard to believe
@@rickyrick5586
Do you believe Michael Phelps trans wife was one of em??
Massa all trans and gays come from planet abominatia
Whatever the creature is, it is clearly catfishing humans.
Good pun you deserve a clap 👏👏
Millions of believers on a still existing long "plesiosaur" that lived through the KT extinction and lived a total of 66 million years...This dude 🤣
"Let's get down to it. Will tourism lose an icon? Yes."
Joshua B if people want to see a real monster just look at the person in the White House.
@@thatminimalistguy1755 lol you mean hillary.
@@tylerm7300 look at the person in the hillary?
Saw a giant eel in the bay at Scarborough 1985. I haven't been over my knees in the sea since that day. It was at least 20 to 25ft long & a girth of about 18 to 24 inches. Saw a giant pike leap in lough Muck Ireland back in 82 too. The splash was as if a tall fat man had fallen into the water from a height. Wouldn't catch me swimming in a lake either.
Wow amazing story. Very intrigued . Surprised this this great comment hasn’t got more likes . You say this eel was 20-25ft long? We’re and how far was this giant Eel you saw? And how big would you say this huge pike was? Awesome if i could get a reply :)
@@talkingtom96 The eel was in Scarborough harbour, east coast of England, north sea. The pike I'd say was one of the last of the Irish pike. Around six feet in length. Co Tyrone in the north.
It's an eel. For years I believed it to be an 'unknown' even believing in the Plesiosaur idea until I kept an eel (saltwater) as a pet. The way it swims, the undulating motion, when it's hungry it tends to swim on the surface... the characteristics reminded me of the Loch Ness monster. A quick Google resulted in this 'Scientists say...' and I believe there's also an article where they found eel DNA. If you could have giant octopuses and other mammoth-sized water dwellers, why not an eel.
It can still be the monster there are different kinds of plesiosaurs fresh and salt and apparently they found a unknown long neck creature in the bottom of a cave
They said there wasn't enough food to support big creatures, now they're saying its a "giant" eel.
Scientists just want to prove that everything is false other than what they say, but when discoveries are made about certain things they said are false, they keep silence like sloths.
Maybe Nessie just enjoys eating eels?
Actually, I think it is a plesiosaurus and the eels are its food source
That 20% DNA that they can't identify...
@Bad Cattitude for real?
@@NoahEB Nope. We never had that many black slaves on British soil.
We shipped them abroad so that centuries later when everyone is hating those countries for that slavery we could sit back say it wasn't us, we abolished it.
@Bad Cattitude eh what..?
Seems scientists can’t quite....LOCH...onto a solid answer
h e
🌽
And the photographers can't seem to...LOCH...their focus on the animal to get a solid picture.
It's pronunced like LOHH
As a Scotsman I can have a say on this. It’s like what’s under a Scotsman’s kilt dark and not often seen. But when it comes out it stands tall like a beckon of light from a light house for all to see then goes back into the darkness to rest.
I swam in Loch Ness as a kid. We met the National Geographic team that was looking back in the early 70’s. It’s all been a load of crap. I live on the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont now. We have Champ the mascot for the local minor league baseball team. The kids love the Champlain Monster.
Hm. Interesting that you were in both places. Any proof that you aren't involved?
I once spent a fine summers day sitting on the eastern shore of Loch Ness. Suddenly a space ship landed nearby and out came this small guy with a bald head and huge eyes. I shared my sandwiches with him and we had a great time. He asked me if I believed in the Loch Ness. I had to confess that I did not. He agreed with me, and said it is probably a load of nonsense.
If there was a Loch Ness Monster it would have been dead by now.
I see Carson Daly found another place to sit, do nothing, and get paid for it.
How many eels would be necessary for have a sustainable population? Certainly a population of 1, or even 10, plesiosaurs would not be sustainable. And 10 would be hard to hide, So, for eels, it ought to be easy to calculate the minimum. And the minimum would likely be in the hundreds-also hard to hide.
My Great uncle worked as a policeman in the Scottish Highlands back in the 1970s and he was driving past Loch Ness in his police car with one of his colleagues sat next to him and they swore they saw something in the Loch they couldn't explain but they reckoned the creature looked like a monster so maybe the animal was a giant eel
Steve Alton, who wrote MEG, made it out as a 20 foot eel, in his book THE LOCH. His explanations made perfect sense.
If the loch ness monster WAS a eel it would be more dangerous cuz it's big= more electricity = more pain
Not all eels are electric
@@Jerimeme true
The British record freshwater eel (Anguilla anguilla) was caught in 1978 from a relatively rich lake in southern England. It is one of the safest records on the UK list, as even a 7 pound eel is huge for most UK waters. Divers in Loch Ness have reported seeing large eels, but freshwater eels rarely feed in winter, so the idea that a cold, deep, nutrient poor lake in Scotland could produce an eel big enough to be mistaken for a 'monster' is, perhaps, stretching things a bit.
Eels can live 3 years without eating and 50 years dormant
@@KarmaZeusBoi Maybe. What I should have said was that the 44 year old UK freshwater (rod caught) eel record weighed 11lbs. A big, old eel, but hardly the size of a 'monster'.
So where did he get the plesiosaur DNA to rule it out? And who's to say that plesiosaur DNA isn't identical to eel DNA?
Mike Collins it doesn't work that way
Because a eel and a plesiosaur are two different animals. Like how humans cant produce a child with a monkey or an ape we are too different.
Everybody talk about giant eels. I’m getting sick of it. 😂😂😂
Has anyone offered Nessie TreeFiddy?
@Bill Clinton it is my DNA on Monica's dress. Not yours.
I usually start with $1.05
I just want to know how he brought that much water on the plane back to New Zealand when I can't even get a Dr. Pepper to Chicago.
Because its not the US and they aren't as paranoid as we are, plus he probably got permission to transport it through official channels.
The largest freshwater fish was a 24ft beluga sturgeon weighing 3463lbs. Lake monsters are real. I wouldn't be that surprised to hear about a 20ft eel considering how large sturgeon can get.
There might not be plesiosaurs visiting Loch Ness, but the 70 recorded land encounters with large, frightening monsters dating back to the early 1800s. I think Nessie tends to come and go, much like the seals that some times visit the loch.
just drain the lake
Martxni even better nuke it
😲
Martxni oh yea? You gonna pay to do that and obtain permission? You know how much $$ that would cost if it’s even possible
bdizz77 r/ wooooooosh
she isn't hurting anyone, just leave 'er be
carol mcleod but imagine how good it’d taste if it was a giant eel.
Reaper..you are what you sow.
Sexist it could be boy... or non existent
Keeps asking people for money tho.
I don't know if he'll ever find that fantasy monster
The Loch Ness monster is just an overgrown pet someone threw into the water when they couldn't feed it anymore
Waves without wind, fish without fin and a floating island.
Each-uisge! Each-uisge!
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily - life is but a dream.
god: *causes extreme drought*
Scientists: “aw, bloody news, there ain’t no Nessie”
A 20 + foot eel is actually scarier to think about.
I BELIVE IN NESSIE!!!
Why not just send underwater drones to scan the whole lake?
@Gel-Man89 You can find an underwater drone for 900$ on Amazon. Take 10 of these, hire 10 boats for one day and call 9 friends or volunteers. Each person will scan a different area of the lake for 10 hours. The lake is not that large. Should cost you 10-20k. Some big UA-camrs like MrBeast can do it.
Eels are too stupid to avoid getting caught. OTOH, Bigfoot is one clever critter.
encinobalboa Bigfoot is actually a bear species oof
@@coldcloakmusic6630 Bigfoot is a hominid, and they are intelligent. They're also not monkeys or apes. Go watch some Bob Gymlan videos, his stuff is pretty good, very scientific, and extremely plausible.
richard bidinger it’s already been figured out by DNA that Bigfoot is a type of bear species. I’ll link the study if I can find it
@@coldcloakmusic6630 Bigfoot DNA cannot be distinguished from human DNA which is why there is always a negative result for cryptid. Bear DNA is from a bear. Bears do not hide themselves. Bears are not scared of cameras. You would figure a 500 pound 8 foot tall Bigfoot wouldn't be scared of sitting for a portrait but so it would seem.
encinobalboa www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/2948745/dna-analysis-debunks-bigfoot-myth-points-to-unknown-bear-species/%3famp=true
Of all things going on in the world, multiple news outlets are talking about this?
Why shouldn't they?
Why are they showing a catfish? They can't tell the difference?
Typically an eel larvae is 1inch long . They grow to 6 feet . Once researchers caught a larvae that was 6 feet long. That would make it 60 feet as an adult. Proof link mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/05/deep-sea-gigantism-curious-cases-of-mystery-giant-eels
I remember when I was a kid and I studied the loch ness monster, (I was really into dinoasuras and cryptids) kinda thought that people didn't care about it anymore because at this point it would probably be dead.
Or never existed in the first place...
A family of giant Eels.
I like how people in Australia and America are talking about a lake in Scotland
Giant eels don't raise their head and neck out of the water to impersonate a pleosaur.
Plesiosaurs could not do that
a fake monster thought of by a genius to make millions selling merch
Sure as heck ain't a "giant eel", the eel DNA was just a big coincidence and doesn't prove anything, it just shows that eels congregate their to reproduce and move out.
The eels themselves are a food source to some other denizen of the loch, I personally believe the mystery animal in Loch Ness is some form of mammal, reptile or amphibian.
The reason they didn't find such DNA, is because DNA doesn't last long at all, the mystery animals had left the loch long before they arrived, meaning that the DNA traces had degraded due to certain conditions of the loch. Which is why I disagree with the whole "DNA sequencing expedition" they did.
This is literally the plot to 'The Loch" by Steve Alten. I think it's getting a cinematic release soon.
IKR?!
Its not an eel. Its bigfoot
Misleading headline: the scientist makes no final determination as to what Nessie is. She "could be" a giant eel only in the sense that he hasn't ruled out the possibility, but he does not think that's what she is.
why do you refer to it as a she?
Cmon bro it’s 2019 don’t assume they gender
That "River Monsters" guy thinks it may be an occasional Greenland shark making its way into the Loch
So, basically for those of you who didn't know, the average lake is one giant toilet bowl!!!
So you can’t even get DNA from the fish that are in the water already . So why would you assume nessy is gone. You proved nothing.
Actually, you can. Its a relatively recent development in science. I think the channel Sci Show did a video on it within the last few months. Interesting stuff really. If something is living in the water, they can get its DNA from that water.
Why ask for proof. Isn't as if Nessie believers have ever given any.
@@richardbidinger2577 well they also showed us living Mermaids too...I assuming that was real too right since it was aired on TV?
These people took their jobs seriously, don't criticise them.
Emily Moss they said no catfish dna was found but their obviously is catfish . They also found dna of sheep , hot seed
As long as they want tourists, Nessie will be out there.
20% are actually the human teens that go skinny dipping every other year smh
Lol. Not sure if anyone swims in there, seeing as to how cold it is.
Enchanting Urquhart Castle ruins in the background there. Just in case anybody's wondering ❤️
Am I the only one who noticed there was something behind the rock at 0:56?
Kinda looks like a little bird perched on the rock, to me at least
It’s a giant snickers bar
Giant eel could be more dangerous than some dinosaur...
"there are NO large animals in the lake" LMFAO. Buuuuuuttttt there is
Monster sightings are easily explained: people remember stuff being much bigger than what they actually saw. If someone saw a five foot eel, they would likely remember it being at least 10 feet long.
Omg that's horrifying.
i went to Loch Ness last year. It was cold.
I went back in 98, and you're right, its very cold.
Way too cold
It’s Scotland, it’s always cold here 😝
I had a feeling it was an eel
Can snails out of their shells, swim? They often report that they have two "horns". Snails have "horns" or head appendages. I've wondered if it these creatures could be a giant, shell-less snail?
So, when is open swim season in Loch?
Oh wow, y'all "discovered" something everyone has known for over a decade...
DanielHavoc What exactly are you referring to? They didn’t really say they ‘discovered’ anything, so why did you put it in quotation marks?
Lies. Nessie is real.
If it’s really an Eel then it’s a record breaking mammoth sized Eel...for it to look THAT big from far away, and I’ve NEVER seen an Eel capable of holding part of its body out of the water like a neck because the Eels skeletal structure doesn’t bend that way.
So many flaws in order to debunk a long loved mystery.
That's what they want you to think.
i’m only here because “YOU NICKNAMES MY DAUGHTER AFTER THE LOCH NESS MONSTER?!”
Maybe,if the world lockdown for 2 years maybe we can find lochness lmao
That is what it is you can see the outlay of its body when it jumps out of the water.
I’m just waiting for the day the video that comes out “REAL MEGALADON FOUND” “Real Dinosaur Found Alive” imagine the feeling seeing that title for the first time 😂
I don't know what people say about nessie. But I say it exist because one of closest friends in Scotland said that his uncle saw it when he was 15.
For years, I've said Ness(& his similar bodied brethren) are giant freshwater eels.
I like how she gets excited about " sitings of nessy for for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! lol
i went hunting with my buddy and while we were out i noticed a footprint...we were out where nobody goes to and i told my friend hey this looks like a primate foot print it even had the distinctive curved big toe..he kept saying no its probably just somebody walking bearfoot....im size 12 shoe and it was bigger than mine...i still regret not taking pictures of it cause it did not look human in any way
The Loch Ness monster is what I leave every time I go doo doo
Drunken Scottish people believe that gaint eel fish is a monster.
Personally I like the idea of it being a Greenland Shark
I had a Scottish friend from school when I was young and he said he saw a shark fin in the water at Loch Ness when he was in a blow up dingy
It is a plesiosaurus that evolved and survived the extinction
I'm saying a giant eel...Makes a lot more sense than some dinosaur.
God damnit monstah! I ain't given ya no tree fiddy!!
Loch Ness is just my trouser trout when I'm swimming
This might make sense, considering the fact that it's hard to find. It'll just go into a hole big enough for it to hide.
Finally some actually good news
Wasn't the loch Ness monster disproven a few years back, like to hey guy who created the original photo came out and told everyone it was faked
That one photo was proven to be a fake but sightings go back hundreds of years and continue to this day
@@spambotful could be something out there, probably not but you never know how many unfounded sightings could be true
me looking at google and type lochness and saw something:
this is why the loch ness monster i explain in google:
Elephant drowning in a lake and rising his trunk
Thats cool and all but is that Carson Dailey from mtv?
Sean Rouse yep
Ryan Lochte in a mermaid suit.
Should be renamed: Eel-ee of lochness 🤪